Practice Area: Labor And Employment, Class Actions, Employee Rights, Employment Contracts, International Employment Contracts, Executive Compensation, Severance Agreements, Partnership Law, Sexual Harassment, Racial Harassment, Employment Discrimination, Age Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Retaliation, Title VII Discrimination, ADA, Employment Civil Rights, ADEA, FMLA, Whistleblower Protection, Unfair Competition, Restrictive Covenants, Wrongful Termination Or Discharge, Employee Benefits, Pension Plans, ERISA, Medical Leave, Wage And Hour Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice, Employment Law, Age Discrimination in Employment, Americans With Disabilities Act, Confidentiality Agreements, Covenants Not To Compete, Employee Drug Testing, Employment Arbitration, Employment Breach of Contract, Employment Claims, Employment Class Actions, Employment Disability Discrimination, Employment Litigation, Employment Mediation, Employment Rights, Employment Terminiation, Employment at Will, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Executive Employment Law, Executive Severance Contracts, Executive Transfers, Family and Medical Leave Act, Federal Employment Law, Harassment, Minimum Wage Law, National Origin Discrimination, Noncompete Litigation, Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation Agreements, Prevailing Wage Litigation, Reductions in Force, Retaliatory Discharge, Security Clearances, Unfair Labor Practices, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), WARN Act, Wage and Hour Class Actions, Whistleblower Litigation, Workplace Violence, Wrongful Termination
About: Advocates for Workplace Fairness: AV rated law firm representing employees, executives, and partners.
Former Firm Names: We are proud to continue serving clients under our established name.
Clients: Our Public Interest Committee (PIC) oversees Outten & Golden's work on public interest employment-related cases on behalf of low-income clients who cannot afford a lawyer. O&G has co-counseled cases with the ACLU Women's Rights Project, the NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project, the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic, the National Employment Lawyers Project, the Legal Aid Society of New York, MFY Legal Services, the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, South Brooklyn Legal Services, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the MinKwon Center for Community Action, Make the Road New York, and HIV Law Project, among other organizations.We represent pro bono clients for free or on a contingency basis as appropriate.As examples of our pro bono matters, we have represented:•A group of workers who spent months after the 9/11 attacks cleaning offices, apartments and stores near Ground Zero but were not paid proper overtime wages.•Four low-wage factory workers whose supervisor persistently sexually harassed them.•A cleaning woman whose employer forced her to work increased hours and perform dangerous manual labor when she became pregnant, and ultimately fired her for going to a doctor appointment.•A gay, HIV-positive administrative assistant who was fired after complaining about discrimination by his supervisor on the basis of his sexual orientation and perceived disability.•A low-wage immigrant restaurant worker who was fired after falling at work and requirin